Backsolving in combined-merit models for marker-assisted best linear unbiased prediction of total additive genetic merit.docVIP

combined-merit models for marker-assisted best linear unbiased prediction of total additive genetic merit 1 Graduate School H 2 DepartmentS Saito ScieIwaisakince, of Technology; Science and Animal 2 Faculty of Agriculture, Niigata University, Niigata 950-21, Japan (Received 6 May 1997; accepted 12 August 1997) Summary - The procedures for backsolving are described for combined-merit models for marker-assisted best linear unbiased prediction, or for the animal and the reduced animal models which contain fixed effects and random effects of total additive genetic merits and resid